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Marty LempresVice President, East Blood Services Division

Marty Lempres is the vice president of the East Blood Services Division of the American Red Cross, a role in which he is responsible for operations in 12 Blood Services Regions spanning 17 states, from Maine to South Carolina.

Prior to this role, Lempres served as a senior leader in Red Cross Humanitarian Services for a year, after 25 years working in financial services. During this time, he led integrated global business units and large functional organizations with industry leaders including State Street, Fidelity Investment and Salomon Brothers, after beginning his career with management consultant McKinsey & Company.

Lempres has a master’s in business administration from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.

Michael ChaploVice President of Recruitment, East Blood Services Division

Michael Chaplo is the vice president of Recruitment for the East Blood Services Division, where he works in partnership with Recruitment Process and Planning leadership, key recruitment-related functions and field leaders to drive improvements in how the organization recruits blood and platelet donors.

Prior to this role, Chaplo served as vice president of National Sales for Preparedness and Health and Safety Services (PHSS) with the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he brought extensive experience in growing revenue to the nonprofit industry, making incalculable contributions to the evolution and growth of PHSS.

Chaplo is a sales and marketing industry leader with more than 20 years of experience and a proven track record of success. He has contributed immeasurably to the high-tech and telecom industries through his executive tenure with several leading companies, where he developed sales and marketing strategies resulting in extraordinary revenue growth.

Chaplo has a Master of Business Administration in management and finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Science from Utica College of Syracuse University. He has also completed executive education programs at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University.

Sharon Pitt is the CEO of the Carolinas and South Carolina Blood Services Regions – the largest combined Blood Services Region in the American Red Cross system based on blood collections.

Pitt began her career with the Red Cross in 2004 as the director of Collections for the South Carolina Blood Services Region. Six years later, she assumed the same role in the Carolinas Region, where she was responsible for all aspects of daily collections operations for the region, which provides blood products and lab services to 103 hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In this role, she also built and led a team of more than 400 cross-functional staff in whole blood, automated and special collections.

Before joining the Red Cross, Pitt was a registered nurse for 15 years with a range of management roles in acute care and long-term care settings and worked in medical equipment sales.

Dr. Corinne Goldberg has served in the capacity of medical director for the Carolinas Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross since 2009. She received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, followed by an Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.. She is board certified in transfusion medicine fellowship from the University of Cincinnati, Hoxworth Blood Center.

Along with her duties in managing blood donor and transfusion recipient complications, Goldberg served as assistant medical director at the Charlotte-based National Testing Laboratory from 2010 to 2013, becoming clinical laboratory director in 2013 to the present.

Dr. Thomas Lightfoot joined the American Red Cross Greater Alleghenies Blood Services Region in 2000. He is currently medical director for the Carolinas Blood Services Region. He received his Bachelor of Science in zoology from Duke University and his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then completed a pathology residency at Georgetown University and a fellowship in transfusion medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Lightfoot is board certified in clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology.